Sheryl Chan comes from Singapore, and lives with multiple chronic illnesses including Antiphospholipid Syndrome, Lupus, epilepsy and more. She aims to use her platform to raise awareness of chronic illnesses from various perspectives.
An Introduction to Liam and Functional Neurological Disorder
I am pleased to have Liam Virgo on the blog today — but not glad that he has to live with the poorly understood medical condition, Functional Neurological Disorder (FND), previously known as "conversion disorder".
*Disclaimer: This article is meant for
Personally, I'm surprised that these old website bones are still holding up, what with the advancements in technology and gaudy new AI trinkets!
Regardless, I wanted to migrate the website to another platform for a few reasons:
* I'm tired of updating WordPress plugins. If you own
From 10 to 15 Different Types of Doctors on My Healthcare Team
I was reading this post the other day, and realised that I had originally written it 10 years ago. Back then, I was 'only' seeing around 10 different types of doctors on a regular basis.
Now,
Do We Even Want to Have Fun at All?
So your friend with chronic illness has rejected your party invitation…again. Or they’ve included a list of T&Cs just in case they have to bail last minute. What’s up with that? Do they hate you or
Dating with Chronic Illness – A Thorny Topic
Dating with chronic illness is no easy, straightforward feat for either party. Questions like this are all over Quora and Reddit: “Would you date or marry a person with chronic illness?”. So I thought I’d share my perspective, as a person who’
Two New Diagnoses - Epiphrenic Esophageal Diverticulum & Mitral Valve Stenosis
Whilst I haven’t heard much good news in a long time, I did not expect 2025 to be a harbinger of such terrible news. It seems like I will need to get two major surgeries done, one for
Why am I Writing About the Rare Disease, Esophageal Diverticulum?
The short answer is because I was recently diagnosed with it, although symptoms have been accumulating for some time now. I had simply assumed that all the regurgitation and vomiting, even in the middle of the night, were due to
Introduction to MediSearch, a Medical AI Search Engine
You’ve probably asked ChatGPT, Gemini or another AI-powered chatbot a medical or health-related question before. Perhaps to try and find a diagnosis, or simply out of curiosity. I have personally asked them some medical questions that I already knew the answers
Darkness Needs Lightness for Balance...
All of my recent posts have been extremely ‘heavy’, so to speak. First, there were the two knee injury series - one on resources for post knee surgery, and the other on things you can do whilst bed bound. Then, there was the Antiphospholipid Syndrome
You may have heard of the rare blood clotting disorder, Antiphospholipid Syndrome, but did you know that it isn’t ‘just’ about the blood? This article is part of the Antiphospholipid Syndrome (APS) resource library that I’m building up on my site from a patient perspective. It consists of
This article is part of the Antiphospholipid Syndrome (APS) resource library that I’m building up on my site. In this post, we will focus on medications and Antiphospholipid Syndrome. In particular, warfarin is a key medication for the management of APS, especially if you’ve experienced blood clotting events
This post is part of the Antiphospholipid Syndrome (APS) resource library that I’m building up on my site for patients, as a patient who’s lived with it for more than two decades myself. This article in particular will focus on all things related to the female sex and
